From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 18 10:52:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7F237B422 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA33072; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:52:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200008181752.TAA33072@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 18, 2000 10:44:21 am" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:52:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk (Jonathan Laventhol), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > > > Hello Folks -- > > > > > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more? > > > > Not yet :) > > That's not quite true. We had ~900GB on a NetBSD/Alpha machine at NASA/Ames. Oh, I mean I havn't build one yet :) > > > Or even 200 Gbyte? > > > > Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me... > > > > > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of > > > IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again, > > > how many can you have?). > > > > Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075 > > drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable > > pricetag. > > You know, I used to say ixnay on that, but, Soren, I've been looking at a lot > of the features of the newer ATA drives, and now that they have bad block > replacement, I'd have to say that what you're proposing is not unreasonable, > although I'd suggest that Vinum/RAID5 be used. Nice to hear, and yes vinum is the way to go for redundancy, who is going to backup THAT amount of data, and on what :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message